Category: General Interest

Registration on online platform is already possible before the official start on Monday Even before the announced start on Monday, it has been possible in Vienna to register for the coronavirus vaccination on the pre-registration platform impfservice.wien. On Saturday, an unadvertised “soft launch” of the function took place. Interest was very high over the weekend: by Sunday afternoon, as of 3 p.m., 120,000 Viennese had already left their data. The City of Vienna justified the earlier start of the pre-registrations with the fact that one wanted to avoid a collapse…

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“The population is no longer sufficiently supportive of the measures,” said Oswald Wagner, vice rector for clinical affairs at Med Uni Vienna, in a panel of experts on the coronavirus situation in Austria on Saturday. What the specialists recommend to the federal government: “General lockdown without exception.” This would have to apply until the 7-day incidence, i.e. the cases per 100,000 inhabitants, would fall below 50. Only then could there be a gradual opening at all, according to Wagner’s personal opinion. He also believes that the home office should become…

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Now the e-vaccination passport is to replace the current paper vaccination passport nationwide by the end of March. The basis for this is a central, national vaccination register in which all vaccination data is stored. The website futurezone.at has summarized the most important information below: What can the e-vaccination certificate do? As with the classic paper vaccination card, the e-vaccination card will in future record all vaccinations that a person has received. This also applies to the Corona vaccination, which consists of two partial vaccinations. In the first stage, individuals…

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After a marathon of talks, the government will decide this weekend on how to proceed with the Corona pandemic. In view of the new virus mutation, there is no longer any thought of easing the lockdown; Carinthia’s Governor Peter Kaiser (SPÖ) expected the lockdown to be extended “well into February” after a meeting of the provinces with the Chancellor. The government is still consulting with experts and social partners on Saturday, and a decision is expected on Sunday. After recently also in Austria more and more suspected cases of the…

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In Austria, about 100 suspected cases of the new British coronavirus variant B 1.1.7. have been registered so far. “These are more or less distributed throughout Austria,” Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said Friday at a press conference in Vienna. These will be sequenced to obtain final certainty. The department head expects the final results by the middle of next week. “But I would be surprised if we had many negative results.” If fully spread, the mutation is 50 percent more infectious than the previously dominant viral variant, according to current…

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What security researchers have warned about has now become reality: The market for fake vaccines on the darknet is growing rapidly. The security firm CheckPoint and Europol warned back in December that fake medicines or malware are usually hidden behind such offers. At that time, fraudsters had already offered alleged vaccine doses, including those from Pfizer/Biontech, for sale in exchange for Bitcoin. The prices amounted to an average of 250 euros per dosage, futurezone.at reported. The online techno platform further reports that in January, the business had now increased by…

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Austria is about to extend the lockdown. But a strict Corona measure will come into force as early as January 15. The federal government plans to decide this weekend how to proceed with the lockdown in Austria. The current lockdown is still valid until January 24, but could be extended due to the still high infection figures. In any case, the opening steps from January 25 onwards are shaky. But before the government decides on a possible extension of the lockdown in the country, a strict Corona rule will come…

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From Friday, all those entering Austria must register online in advance. This also applies to Austrians. The current quarantine obligation remains in place until further notice, with free testing possible after five days at the earliest. Exceptions to both the quarantine and registration requirements continue to apply to commuters, transients and people entering the country for urgent family matters that cannot be postponed, such as funerals. The only countries exempted from the quarantine requirement, but not from the registration requirement, are Australia, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore,…

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With around 500 million monthly active users, Telegram is moving closer to its US competitor WhatsApp. The messenger service Telegram has gained around 25 million new users within 72 hours. As Russian app founder Pavel Durov announced on Tuesday, the platform currently has around 500 million monthly active users. This brings Telegram closer to its US competitor WhatsApp. The surge in Telegram downloads came shortly after WhatsApp introduced new privacy terms. The new rules allow more data to be shared with parent company Facebook. The changes have drawn criticism because…

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